Cara Leong

Our new piece in Nature Machine Intelligence: LLMs are replacing human participants, but can they simulate diverse respondents? Surveys use representative sampling for a reason, and our work shows how LLM training prevents accurate simulation of different human identities.

17.02.2025 16:36 — 👍 150    🔁 35    💬 9    📌 2

somehow, against all reason, the thing that makes me the angriest here is the use of cambria as a title font??

03.12.2024 21:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a watched clock never ticks

15.02.2024 23:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

working on a project that has taught me more about cat breeds than i have ever cared to know

31.01.2024 00:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

why make graph when illegible table with one bolded cell do trick?

21.12.2023 06:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Non-exhaustive list of things I have suddenly become very invested in at or near paper deadlines:
1. Beekeeping
2. Sumo
3. Lego art
4. Terrarium building
5. Stardew Valley speedruns
6. The Qing dynasty

14.12.2023 06:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot? The world is racing to develop ever more sophisticated large language models while a small language model unfurls itself in my home.

Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot? #NewYorker www.newyorker.com/hu...

15.11.2023 23:03 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2

two text messages: "what is happening in this class rn" and "does anyone want bubble tea"

my two brain cells

24.10.2023 18:29 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New York Times article headline that reads "Who Was the Man Whose Killing Canada Says India Instigated?"

new syntax example sentence just dropped

19.09.2023 22:43 — 👍 35    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

Special thanks to the very loud patrons of the Irish bar across the street for the unsolicited live updates on the Jets-Bills game that I didn't know was happening until I literally googled "sports"

12.09.2023 03:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just spent 2 hours helping a friend sort out her conda environments and apparently that was exactly what I needed to make me excited to start work..?

09.09.2023 00:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0